How long to leave cooked meat dishes out?

[Whathefisgoingon]

This drives DP mad, as I’m a bit neurotic about it being pregnant.

I’ve just cooked a chicken and green bean dish, it finished cooking 45 min ago and is still steaming hot on the worktop.

What confuses me is that all the guidelines talk about how long you can leave something at room temp. Does that mean regardless of the food temp itself, or once the food has cooled to room temp?

Either way, how long do you leave your meat dishes out for? At this point I’d be sticking this in the fridge at the 1 hour mark, despite it being hot.

My understanding is to either keep it hot, eat it or cool it as soon as possible if not eating right away.

I wouldn't leave it to cool down for an hour and then eat/freeze.

Yes but if you're batch cooking how do you cool it quickly without sticking it in the fridge/freezer while still warm and messing up the stuff already in there?

Do you want to keep it warm for someone to eat later or are you just wanting to get it in the fridge for another day? If the later the best thing to do is decant it out of the pot you cooked it in. If you can put it into a shallow dish/tray it will cool much quicker.

thanks for the replies. It’s usually that I need to keep it warm for another hour or so before DP is back for dinner!